Biography of Lucius C. Loveland, pages 790 / 791. History of De Kalb
County, Indiana. Inter-State Publishing Company, Chicago, 1885.
Lucius C. Loveland, section 31, Stafford Township, postoffice, Newville, is
a native of Defiance County, Ohio, born June 3, 1844, the eldest son of
Luther and Mary M. (Clemmer) Loveland, the former a native of Connecticut,
born in 1816, and the latter of Virginia, born in 1815. He is a descendant
of Thomas Loveland who settled Glastonbury, Conn., in 1670. His great-
grandfather, Pelatiah Loveland, was a blacksmith, and made the nails with
which to shingle the first frame barn in that town. Two of his brother were
soldiers in the Revolutionary war. He was married Dec.7, 1774, to Mollie
Goodale, and the second time, Oct. 27, 1816, to Eunice Butler. He died in
1823. He reared a family of thirteen children; the youngest son, the
grandfather of our subject, Luther Loveland, was born March 18, 1793, and
was married May 15, 1814, to Lucy Wickam, and in 1824 moved to Lorain
County, Ohio. His family consisted of nine children, six sons and three
daughters. Luther Loveland, our subject’s father, came to the Maumee
River in 1834, and to Hicksville, Defiance County, Ohio, in 1837, where he
bought 160 acres of land on section 7. He sowed the first crop of wheat
in the township, on unplowed ground, where the town of Hicksville now is,
for A. P. Edgerton, and made a harrow with wooden teeth to harrow it. He
was married in 1840, and had a family of seven children, three sons and
four daughters. Lucius C. Loveland learned the tinner’s trade when twenty-
two years of age, and carried on that business eleven years. In the fall
of 1866 he came to De Kalb County and worked at this trade in Newville two
years, and in 1868 removed to Hicksville. He was hurt by a falling tree
when about eighteen years of age, and was obliged to have the lower part of
his right leg amputated. In 1871 he was elected Treasurer of Hicksville
Township, and served five years. And in 1873 was elected Justice of the
Peace, and served six years. During this time he was Clerk of Hicksville
corporation and served one year on the Village Council. In 1876 he, with
his father and John Crowl, built the Anchor Mills at Hicksville. In 1879
he exchanged his interest in the mill for the farm where he now lives
which was entered in 1836 by A. Walden. He was elected Justice of the
Peace of Stafford Township in 1880, and served three and a half years,
when he resigned. He is prominent member of the Odd Fellows’ order. He
was married Dec. 22, 1864, to Margaret J. Shroll, of De Kalb County, Ind.
To them have been born nine children; eight are living---Frank S., Luther
J., Cora and Ora (twins), Maud M., Ray P., Maggie, Mary F. and George.
Maggie fell in a ditch and was drowned April 26, 1880, aged two years.
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Arlene Goodwin
Auburn, Indiana
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